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Crowley ISD 6-12 Novel List Crowley ISD 6‐12 Novel List Updated November 3, 2017 Sixth Grade (31) Pre-AP* Read during school year# Title Author Lexile Among the Hidden Margaret Peterson Haddix 800L Castle in the Attic Elizabeth Winthrop 750L The Cay* # Theodore Taylor 860L The Clay Marble Minfong Ho 860L The Door in the Wall Marguerite De Angeli 990L El Guero Elizabeth Barton De Trevina 860L Flush Carl Hiassen 830L Freak the Mighty* # Rodman Philbrick 1000L House of Dies Drear Virginia Hamilton 670L I Juan de Pareja Elizabeth Barton de Trevina 1100L Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O’Dell 1000L Jake Ransom and Skull King Shadow James Rollins 680L The Lightning Thief # Rick Riordan 740L The Limit* # Kristen Landon 690L Maniac McGee Jerry Spinelli 820L Missing May Cynthia Rylant 980L Neighborhood Odes Gary Soto NP Number the Stars Lois Lowry 670L On My Honor Marion Dane Bauer 750L Pacific Crossing Gary Soto 750L The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster 1000L Red Scarf Girl Ji‐Li Jiang 780L Scat Carl Hiassen 810L The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 970L So Far From the Bamboo Grove Yoko Kawashima Watkins 730L Summer on Wheels Gary Soto 750L Taking Sides Gary Soto 750L Touching Spirit Bear Ben Mikaelsen 670L Tuck Everlasting* # Natalie Babbitt 770L Walk Two Moons* # Sharon Creech 770L The Boy in the Striped Pajamas John Boyne 1080L The Westing Game (GATE) # Ellen Raskin 750L The Yearling Marjorie Kinaan Rawlings & 750L Coleen Degnan Veness Zeely Virginia Hamilton 690L Seventh Grade (34) Pre-AP* Read during school year# Title Author Lexile Bud Not Buddy Paul Christopher Curtis 950L Call Waiting R L Stine 530L City of Ember Jeanne DuPrau 680L Code Talker Joseph Bruchac NP The Color My Words Lynn Joseph 840L Crash Jerry Spinelli 560L Crossing the Wire Will Hobbs 670L Dark Water Rising Marian Hale 970L Dogsong Gary Paulsen 930L Don’t Call Me Ishmael Michael Gerard Bauer 890L Don’t You Dare Read This Mrs. Dunphry Margaret Peterson Haddix 980L Dragonwings Lawrence Yep 870L Emako Blue Brenda Woods 600L Esperanza Rising (Sue Crouch has copies) Pam Munoz Ryan 750L The Face on the Milk Carton Caroline B. Cooney 660L Hit and Run R L Stine 570L Hush Jacqueline Woodson 640L Jacob I Have Loved Katherine Paterson 880L Kindred Octavia Butler 580L Life As We Knew It* Susan Beth Pfeffer 770L A Midsummer Night’s Dream* # William Shakespeare 640L No Way Out Peggy Kern 580L The Outsiders* # SE Hinton 750L Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry # Mildred Taylor 920L Schooled Gordon Korman 740L Shane Jack Shaefer 870L The Skin I’m In Sharon Flake 670L So B. It Sarah Weeks 860L Stepping on the Cracks Mary Downing Hahn 780L Summer of the Swans Betsy Byars 830L Watership Down Richard Adams 880L The Watsons Go to Birmingham # Christopher Paul Curtis 1000L The Westing Game Ellen Raskin 750L When Zachary Beaver Comes to Town Kimberly Willis Holt 700L Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls 700L Wonder R.J. Palacio 790L Eighth Grade (29) Pre-AP* All Classes** Read during school year# Title Author Lexile Across Five Aprils Irene Hunt 1100L Animal Farm* # George Orwell 1170L Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl # Anne Frank 1080L The Boy Who Dared Susan Bartoletti Campbell 760L The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank Anne Frank 950L Chains Laurie Halse Anderson 780L Children of the River Linda Crew 700L Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah 960L The Contender Robert Lipsyte 760L The Giver* # Lois Lowry 760L The House on Mango Street* # Sandra Cisneros 870L Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie 640 My Brother Sam is Dead James Lincoln Colllier 770L Nothing but the Truth Avi NP Old Yeller Fred Gipson 910L Out of the Dust Karen Hesse NP Petty Crimes Gary Soto 800L The Pigman Paul Zindel 950L Romeo and Juliet** # William Shakespeare 1040L Romiette and Julio # Sharon Draper 610L Speak Laurie Halse Anderson 690L Star Girl Jerry Spinelli 590L Summer of My German Soldier Bette Greene 800L Surviving Antartica David Thomas NP Time Machine HG Wells 1070L True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi 740L Twelfth Night William Shakespeare NP War of the Worlds H.G. Wells 1070L Wednesday Wars Gary Schmidt 990L The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare 850L Ninth Grade (22) Pre-AP* All Classes** Read during school year# Title Author L As You Like It William Shakespeare NP The Book Thief* # Mark Zusak 730L The Chosen Harold Bloom 970L Dracula Bram Stoker 990L Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card 780L Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1090L House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer 660L I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* Maya Angelou 1070L The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan 930L Life of Pi Yann Martel 830L Lord of the Flies* # William Golding 770L The Memory Keeper’s Daughter* # Kim Edwards 800L The Merchant of Venice* # William Shakespeare NP Night** # Elie Wiesel 570L The Odyssey* # Homer 1050L Parrot in the Oven # Victor Martinez 1000L A Raisin in the Sun** # Lorraine Hansberry 970L The Rock & the River # Kekla Magoon 550L Romeo & Juliet (2015‐16 final year at 9th) William Shakespeare NP The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd 840L Slam Walter Dean Myers NP Tears of a Tiger Sharon Draper 700L To Kill a Mockingbird* # Harper Lee 870L The Wave Todd Strasser 770L Tenth Grade (19) Pre-AP* All Classes** Read during school year# Title Author L 1984* # George Orwell 1090L Anthem Ayn Rand 880L Antigone* # Sophocles 1090L The Awakening Kate Chopin 960L Black Like Me John Howard Griffin 990L The Boy in the Striped Pajamas John Boyne 1080L Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Mark Haddon 1180L Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury 880L Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 920L Fahrenheit 451** # Ray Bradbury 890L Fire in the Streets Kekla Magoon 650L The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 680L Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1000L The Iliad # Homer 1320L Julius Caesar* # William Shakespeare NP Maus II, A Survivor’s Tale, Book 2 Art Spiegelman NP Maus, A Survivor’s Tale, Book 1 Art Spiegelman NP Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass* # Frederick Douglass 1080L The Pearl John Steinbeck 1010L Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 950L Eleventh Grade (19) AP* All Classes** Read during school year# Title Author Lexile The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn** Mark Twain 990L The Awakening Kate Chopin 960L The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver 900L Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya 840L The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger 790L Columbine** # Dave Cullen NP The Crucible # Arthur Miller NP Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1160L Fast Food Nation* # Eric Schlosser 1240L The Great Gatsby** # F. Scott Fitzgerald 1070L In Cold Blood* # Truman Capote 1040L The Jungle** # Upton Sinclair 1170L A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines 750L Of Mice and Men # John Steinbeck 630L A Place Where the Sea Remembers Sandra Benitez 790L A Raisin in the Sun Lynn Domine 1400L The Scarlet Letter* # Nathaniel Hawthorne 1420L A Separate Peace John Knowles 1110L Their Eyes Were Watching God** # Zora Neale Hurston 1080L A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris 980L Twelfth Grade (19) AP* All Classes** Read during school year# Title Author Lexile Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt 1110L A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini 1280L Beowulf** # Seamus Heaney 1090L Cry, The Beloved Country Alan Paton 860L The Crystal Cave Mary Stewart 960L Frankenstein # Mary Shelley 1170L Grendel** # John Gardner 920L Hamlet # William Shakespeare NP The Heart of Darkness* # Joseph Conrad 1050L The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde NP The Kite Runner # Khaled Hosseini 840L MacBeth William Shakespeare NP A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare NP Othello* # William Shakespeare NP The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 960L Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1190L Pygmalion George B. Shaw NP Tess of the D’urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1160L Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett NP Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte 880L Multicultural Literature (7) Title Author Lexile The Good Earth Pearl Buck 1530L The Kite Runner* Khaled Hosseini 840L Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Sherman Alexie 830L Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri 1050L Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1120L Things Fall Apart Chinia Achebe 890L The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien 880L Science Fiction/Fantasy (6) Title Author Lexile Another Fine Myth Robert Aprin NP Brave New World Aldous Huxley 870L The Hobbit J.R. R. Tolken 1000L Holt Anthology of Science Fiction Holt, Rinehart & Winston NP The Incredible Journey Shella Burnford 1320L Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 650L .
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